Julia Jones

Born near Barnsley, Yorkshire,1938. Has lived on Anglesey since 1974. Studied at University College Wales, Aberystwyth and Bangor Technical College. Elected to RCA 2001. “From a very early age I have enjoyed drawing and painting. As a student I did science but now I feel I am back on track doing the thing I really wanted to do. I am basically a tonal painter. Light and the effect it has on the landscape and on the familiar objects which surround me at home,has always caught my attention.I sketch in pencil and watercolour but most of my finished paintings are done in acrylic,a medium which I find very versatile and unconstraining.”

Ganed ger Barnsley,Swydd Efrog,1938. Mae wedi byw ar Ynys Môn er 1974. Astudiodd yng Ngholeg Prifysgol Cymru,Aberystwyth a Choleg Technegol Bangor. Etholwyd i’r AFG 2001. “Rwyf wedi mwynhau tynnu lluniau a pheintio ers oeddwn yn fach iawn. Astudio gwyddoniaeth a wnes fel myfyriwr ond erbyn hyn mae pethau wedi disgyn i’w lle ac rwy’n gwneud yr hyn yr oeddwn am ei wneud mewn gwirionedd. Arlunydd arlliwiol ydw i yn y bôn. Mae’r golau a’r effaith a gaiff ar y tirwedd ac ar y gwrthrychau cyfarwydd sydd o’m hamgylch gartref wedi hawlio fy sylw erioed. Rwyf yn braslunio mewn pensel a dyfrlliw ond mae’r rhan fwyaf o’m paentiadau gorffenedig mewn acrylig,cyfrwng hyblyg iawn nad yw’n cyfyngu fawr ar yr arlunydd.”